The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-19
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont.

JACKSONVILLE has an apple-jelly factory
Several cases of diphtheria are reported in
the town of Vernon.
j. e. RIDDALL has been appointed post
master at South Tunbridge
THE Episcopal society at Proctorsville is
erecting "a new church edifce.
Portions of Orleans county have lately
been visited by typhoid fever.
THE building of the new depot at South
| Royaton has been commenced.
HENRY GIBBS of Walden has been locked
up on charge OF demonstrating.
WINTER apples in the southern part of
the state sell for S1.50 to S1.75 per barrel.
Miss SLAsoN's private school at Rutland
has been closed ON account of diphtheria.
G. T. COLLINS of Irasburgh lost barn re-
Gently by fire. Cow kicked over a lantern.
REV. DIR. WHITE will fill the Congrega-
tional desk at Middlebury until April next
AT Wilmington Geo. Streeters child fell
from high-chair and broke her collar-bone.
Two st. Johnsbury individuals paid So
each and costs for disturbing a Salvation
Army meeting
DR. l.. II. WILLIAMS, formerly of Wood
stock, has been knighted by the King of
Norway and Sweden.
G. A. PRoUTY, a Newport lawyer, is TO re-
move to Rutland and 90 into partnership
with ex-Judge Barrett.
A FIvE-YEAR-oLD boy at West Brattleboro
drives a pair of siX-months-old calves
| hitched to small cart.
The new iron highway bridge across the
LanIoille river between Colchester and Mil
ton is now open to travel.
RODNEY S. WIRES, formerly prominent in
the insurance business in Burlington, has
just died at Dallas, Texas.
The donor of the New Hampshire block
of granite for the Bennington monument is
Hon. John Kimball of Concord.
THE Merchants Tea Company so-called,
| a temporary concern at Rutland, has been
fined for doing lottery business.
L. w. STOWE of Ripton was suffocated by
gas at the Berwick House in Rutland. He
was thirty years old and married.
CHAUNCEY TEMPLE of Franklin has re-
Gently presented the Sunday-school of that
place with a library of 2l7 volumes.
A COUPLE united in marriage at Crafts
bury the other day were eighty-three and
seventy-fve years of age respectively.
FRANK E. HoUsH & Co. of Brattleboro
have received an order to print 80 900 story
books for Ives II Pond Piano Co., Boston.
FIFTEEN thousand dollars of the S17 900
desired for rebuilding the Black River
Academy at Ludlow have been subscribed.
THERE have been two deaths from diph-
liberia at East Middlebury within week.
Two or three more are sick with the disease.
THE architect says the new passenger
station at South Royalton is to be the
handsomest building of the kind in the
state.
+. II. MANDIGo, barber at the Bardwell
House, Rutland, married, is claimed by a
woman Just arrived from Boston as her hus-
band.
The fines and costs imposed at the pres
ent term of Rutland county court will
amount to over $4,000, most of them being
liquor fines.
REV. ROYAL G. WILDER, for thirty years
a missionary in India, died recently in New
York. He was born in Brdport, VT, Octo-
Der 7th 1916
FIRE Sunday morning destroyed the
house and farm buildings of j. NJ. Good
nough in Pttsford. The loss is 81 1000; in
surance 200.
AN invalid residing in West Rutland was
greatly encouraged recently by the arrival
of sister and eleven children, who came tC
assist her in her sickness.
ABOUT $4,000 have been expended in
: Rutland this year for building. In the same
time about $2000O0 have been spent for the
same purpose in Burlington.
= In Woodstock laborer struck a match tc
light his pipe in ditch in the vicinity OF
| a gas-man. An explosion followed and
another laborer was badly burned.
SMITH & KETCHAM's large furniture manu-
factory at Vergennes was burned Thursday
, Loss $500; insurance $3.50. Twenty-Five
, men and boys are thrown out of work.
? SAMUEL MERRILL, son of Colonel George
A. Merrill has resigned his position in the
railroad office at White River junction anG
expects to go to st. Paul, Mimi, to live.
Hon. CHARLES w. WooDHoUsE, presiden
of the Merchants National Bank, Burling
ton, is placed on the executive council of tn,
National Bankers Association for Vermont
THE directors of the St. Adams base bal
club held meeting the other evening anC
; found that the expenditures had been 81 ,50
more than the receipts; but the club wo1
the pennant.
n THE current number of the Phrenologica
q journal has as its frontispiece portrait o
+ the late Hon. Luke p. Poland, and the lead
/ ing article is an appreciative notice of hi
life and career.
S Ii. C. HILL of Isle La Motto recent,
shipped carload of Fameuse apples to tn
n New York market, for which he gets $685.
or 1913 a barrel These apples We're raise,
on trees set out seven years ago
:, Mrs. BERTHA SrocKwELL, daughter o
i M. ID. l.. Thompson of Burlington, saile'
from New York recently EN- route TO
h Frankfort, Germany. Mrs. Stockwel goe
: abroad to continue her musical studies.
d REV. ID. SHARKS, ID. D., died at Poultne,
October 18TH His death was due to tn
impairment of age. DR.. Starks was
:, Methodist clergyman and was well-knowl
u throughout Troy conference for many years
l. j. ID. TANNERS drugstore and s. Big
n wood & Sons hardware-store at Wnoosb
Il were broken into the 10th. The burglar
r took about $40 in money and revolve
II worth S12 at Tanners, but got nothing {
!. any consequence at Bigwood & Sons.
IL THE standing wood and timber on lot Nc
10 % in Mendon. consisting of 1856 acres, be
sr longing to the University of Vermont, wa
<. sold at auction recently to Griffith q No
d Intire of Dandy for $500. The purchaser
II have ten years to remove the wood an
t. lumbermen say they paid a big price for it,
s. GOVERNOR ORMsBEE has appointed HoI
K Loveland Munson of Manchester as chat
IN man of the commission created for the pu
y. pose of drafting new educational bill I
81 increase the efficiency and improve til
public schools of the state, to fill the V;
cancy caused by the resignation of Hor
James NJ. Tyler.
II. b. WILLIAMS, w. p Nash and f.
Nash were appointed to appraise the valu
n of the cattle belonging to y. l.. Varney
lie Bristol slaughtered by order of the stat
H. board of cattle commissioners, and the
IN placed the amount at 1927, about $3.50 pc
Or head. The commissioners are not antC
ey pating any further trouble.
e. A DISPATCH from Bellows Falls says thi
1r statistics just gathered bearing upon I'll